Woodrow Wilson High School - President Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

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WO0DROW WILSON HIGH S CHO0L Portsmouth Vlrgmla

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THE PRESIDENT

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Page4 FORE ORD Princlpal Robert L Sweeney retired Twenty five years ago Robert L Sweeney our beloved former teacher and prrncrpal made a contrlbutlon to our school that wrll remam a part of rt as long as there rs a Woodrow Wrlson Hrgh School Because of hrs great loyalty and devotron to the school he was mspnred to wrrte the words for Wrlsons frrst Alma Mater the same Alma Mater that students so proudly smg today the wrrtrng of th1s song we suddenly real rzed that here was the theme for the 1959 Presrdent It takes only one glance to see that each phrase of this song goes hand rn hand wrth a certam sectron of our year book Who but the teachers can All our zeal IDSDIICQ' Who but you the students are All thy loyal sons and daughters? Who could the words Stalwart sons wrll eer revere thee possxbly refer to except our athletes? When Mr Sweeney wrote the Alma Mater he hoped and dreamed that xt would be an msprratnon to the graduates of Wood row Wllson Hxgh School for many future generatrons Today twenty frve years later wrll contmue to do so nn years to come Students are strll smgmg the words Through the ages we wnll cherrsh and meaning them for we truly have been grven something to cherlsh The IDSPIIZIZIOII re cenved from thrs our Alma Mater wnll for ever lrve ln our hearts . . , . 9 Y . ' . . . , v I . . D ' , - ' 1 Slnce 1959 IS the Srlver Anruversary of that dream has more than come true, and , - . i ' 7 7 . ,. . . , , . U 5 . , , .